Campaign for the 2015 elections is in full swing now in Nigeria, and we know what that means for the abducted girls. If before President Jonathan was looking for excuses not to do his job, he got one now. The joke is that he might even be re-elected for a second term, when it is clear to everyone that his first term has been so far pure shambles. But politics in Nigeria is such that he does not even have to stand for elections to be elected. If his party wins, then he, as the party leader becomes the president, as simple as that, so all he has to do is make sure his party wins.

His main opposition is one man who has a very short memory in the politics of Nigeria. I will not name names, but we know who they are. This man said, at the beginning of President Jonathan’s rule, that he will make Jonathan’s term ungovernable. This same man has been suspected by all and sundry to be one of the sponsors of Boko Haram. Today he is on the run from Boko Haram, whether this is for real or set up to look like real, only he knows. This same man is now threatening fire and brimstone if he does not win come 2015.

This is pure irony. This same man comes from Northern Nigeria that has ruled Nigeria for the better part of her independence. This same man has even ruled Nigeria before with nothing to show for it. This is Nigeria where anything goes, where only the cunning, not the best win.

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President Jonathan is finally talking, even if through a third party, but talking, and telling us nothing. Just as he is telling us that the help promised by America has yielded nothing, America is telling us that a recent US surveillance shows what seems to be a large groups of the abducted girls in a remote area. To me, this is not coincidence. This is the first time we are hearing of any American presence in the search for the girls, and it has come after the Nigerian government started to complain about not seeing the results of their presumed help.

Whatever game is playing out here, whatever covert actions are being taken here, all concerned should remember, we are dealing with lives. We are dealing with the lives of young innocent girls who for no fault of their own find themselves almost in a land of no return. The Nigerian government has since known where these girls are being held, but their argument has always been that if they use force, lives will be lost. President Jonathan, please do not use force, but buy the girls out. This impasse has lasted for too long. Give those murderers what they want as the price for the heads of those girls and free them.

If there are any other way to free these girls other than buying them out, any other way that will ensure they all return without further delay, then do it. Simply waiting for something to give, waiting for Boko Haram to weaken is not a good tactics. The girls are also wasting.

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I believe that what we are experiencing now about the missing girls is a stand off between Boko Haram and the Nigerian government. Boko Haram has used up all their tricks, and they are gradually being wedged in from all sides. The Nigerian government seems to be turning the other way from the atrocities of the Military personnel with captured Boko Haram prisoners. No two wrong can make a right. We know that Boko Haram has shown heartlessness, and callousness in dealing with people, but the Military should not try to match or out do them by committing the same atrocities.

If one of the reasons they capture and kill, is because there are no prison cells for the captured, then they must ensure the captured undergo due process on the spot before condemning and executing them. Cutting off heads and maiming should not be part of this justice. Those are the trade mark of Boko Haram. No matter how hard it is not to pay Boko Haram back, an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth, the Military must perform differently from them.

Let us hope that the complete silence we are witnessing is a plan to keep the continued search of the girls secret until they are found and released. Let us also hope that behind this silence the freedom of these girls is eminent. This thing has dragged on for too long, and it must come to an end, for the sake of President Jonathan, and even for Boko Haram.

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Now that Nigeria is under constant scrutiny, you would think the President of Nigeria will be taking concrete actions to show the world what he is doing, or how he is working toward finding the missing girls. Instead, he is silent. I doubt if he knows the whole world is watching and waiting on him.

If he cannot do, and will not delegate others to do for him, because of trust, then woe betide him! Woe betide all those surrounding him, pretending to help him, while setting him up for failure. His advisors have failed him. They have weakened him. They have succeeded in thoroughly making him look like an incompetent fool. He is surrounded by enemies, but he doesn’t know that. They have succeeded in isolating him from the truth, from reality. Right now, he is all by himself, incapacitated. This looks like a deliberate plan to render him non functional. They have put him where they want him, a President without the power to perform his duties, a President with no control over anything. A president who does not deserve that title.

Those who promised to make him fail have succeeded. But to what gain? Nigeria is a tough county to rule, so whoever has caused President Jonathan to fail cannot expect to succeed. What goes round comes round. I am not making excuses for President Jonathan, but we can see what is going on.

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I said it! Those female suicide bombers are not out there blowing themselves up of their own volition. We now hear that Boko Haram is using some of the kidnaped girls to perform their nefarious acts. These unwilling girls are sent out there, strapped in IEDs, and practically forced to walk into targeted areas, with their abductors at a distance, who then proceed in remotely triggering the bombs. This is how they have succeeded in killing and maiming in Kanu and Kaduna recently.

The cowards are not even giving these girls the chance of choosing their own destiny. I had wondered how a religion that does not respect women in this life could do so in the life after, or how the women used could buy such argument. Now we know. What they, the Boko Haram do not know is that those unwilling female suicide bombers are the real saints in all of this. They did not chose to die that way, but were thrown into the valley of death to die while causing great havoc. They became the bullet, and the bullet has no mind of its own. The one shooting the bullet is the one to pay the price, not the bullet. The blood of those girls are on their heads.

The sponsors and supporters should take note too. Boko Haram has shown cowardice in all their undertakings. Just as they sneak in and kill the innocents, so will they sneak in a destroy all those guilty of the innocent’s blood. Mark my word. The end is in sight.

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The days are piling up again, and still no news about the abducted girls. I searched the Nigerian newspapers, the web, and the world news for updates, but found the same old stories. I saw, at least members of the Nigerian armed forces combing the dredges and forests of the North East of Nigeria in their quest to locate the girls. I pray they find and free them.

Weeks ago, the hunters of Nigeria banded together and promised to war against Boko Haram. Then for a long time, we heard nothing from them. A few days ago, I read about them asking President Jonathan to give them the permission to proceed. This is strange. Why do they need the President’s permission to go into the bushes and flush out Boko Haram as they promised? I will attribute this new development to the same Nigerian style of doing things. They want the President’s permission because that will give them the right to make demands on the President. So their’s is not a free offer after all, but an offer with hidden agenda. I will advise the hunters to please do the job first and then ask for rewards later.

Boko Haram is slowly beginning to feel comfortable in the areas they have emptied of people and taken control of. My question is, are they going to repopulate those areas with outsiders, or do they really believe that the native will return to taste more of their brutality? Time will tell.

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Bad things happen in multiples, they say, and the Ebola in Nigeria is a case in study. For a country that never takes anything seriously, Nigeria seems to be dealing with the out break of Ebola with more seriousness than usual. Let us hope this is the true picture. Otherwise, this new nuisance is an unwelcome distraction from the other gut wrenching problems Nigeria has been facing. Now the Nigerian government has an added excuse for not pursuing the liberation of the abducted girls.

A former Nigerian Vice President tells us today that the problem of insecurity in Nigeria is due to bad government. I was hoping to hear something new. Every time those in position to proffer solutions for the problem of Boko Haram in Nigeria,we hear them talking politics, and everyone turns around and accuses them of playing politics. To be precise, Boko Haram in Nigeria has always been the political child of the opposition. The only problem I see with the government is the lackadaisical way of doing things, as if time stands still for them.

The opposition promised to make the government of President Jonathan ungovernable. They encouraged, supported, housed, and financed Boko Haram at the onset, but Boko Haram had their own agenda. They do not have permanent friends. You are their friend as long as you do their will, otherwise, they strike the person down. Today, some of their sponsors are at the receiving end.

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The President of the Cameroon knows exactly what to do when it comes to taking control of his armed forces. In the wake of Boko Haram’s attack in the Cameroon a fews days ago, and the abduction of the Vice President’s wife and her house girl, the President of the Cameroon promptly dismissed the top commanders of the region where this took place. Has anyone heard anything about the President of Nigeria firing any Military officer since Boko Haram’s onslaught in Nigeria? Of course not, sign that he has lost control of his armed forces who are now holding him in a choke-hold.

The generals decry all sorts of lack as reasons for their inaction; their boys are out numbered by Boko Haram, or are deserting, their arms are inferior to those used by Boko Harma, even though Boko Haram’s arms are those looted from the army during attack on army and police barracks. If the Military and police had those superior arms before they were looted, what prevented them from using the arms in the first place?

The generals are still asking for more money to equip the army, with man power, arms, and who knows what. We know they have arms they are not using, they have long range surveillance equipments, they do not know how to use, and very soon, Boko Haram will seize those too when they find out where the equipments are lying fallow.

The generals know that money does not fight battles, people do. As long as they are afraid of empowering their men with education and the wherewithal to fight this battle, Boko Haram will continue to have the upper hand.

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The women are the ones now causing havoc amongst Boko Haram. They allow themselves to be laced with explosions and sent out to die, for what? For whom? With what promises? I know what the men who blow themselves up believe. What are they making the women believe? It cannot possibly be the same thing they believe. Perhaps they are forcing these women to kill themselves as the only option open to them in life. Or perhaps, these women chose to blow themselves up because they see that as the only option open to them. It must be one of these many reasons.

We know how women in Islam are regarded. We know how adherent of Islam will claim otherwise, but the truth is in what we see happening all over the world of Islam with women. No one can deny what we see. Strangely enough, we do not see the world of Islam denouncing openly the atrocities of their brothers and now sisters who are marauding the world and giving the world sleepless nights. Why are they not speaking out? Because they agree and condone the activities of these brothers and now sisters.

In the most, we hear them grumbling about the treatment they are receiving, the bad eyes they are given in public places, and generally the bad feeling they are getting from those around them. The world of Islam must speak out against the dastardly activities of their brothers and sisters around the world.

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Whoever is behind Boko Haram, whoever has dined and wined with them in the past must now know they ate with the devil. The rich and mighty in Nigeria believed they could use the poor and downtrodden to their own advantage, forgetting the poor devils are also humans who want fame, and dream of becoming rich and mighty. Today, these poor devils have tasted power and they do not want to be manipulated anymore. Today, they are acting against every rule, every instruction they were given. They are now on their own, making and following their own rules. Their mentors cannot stop them anymore, having lost control of them.

The sponsors of Boko Haram have lost sleep. They find themselves today in a deep hole they dug themselves, under constraint to continue their support of Boko Haram or be killed by Boko Haram. Look at the Cameroon, the country had for long allowed Boko Haram to use their territory to hide their loot. Today, they are on the receiving end. So also will Chad and Niger if they do not hurry up and tighten their borders.

Nigeria was slow in acting against Boko Haram, and now it seems Boka Haram has over-run a small part of the country. These other countries surrounding Nigeria, should not wait for Boko Haram to make more in-road into their countries. Members of Boko Haram are illiterate, ignorant, without feelings, merciless and murderous. They believe heaven awaits them, with their hands dripping with blood.

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